# Joseph John Thomson

* Joseph John Thomson
* Sir Joseph John Thomson OM PRS
* * 18. Dezember 1856 in Cheetham Hill
* † 30. August 1940 in Cambridge
* britischer Physiker
* Nobelpreis für Physik 1906
* Artikel in der Wikipedia
* Bilder und Medien bei Commons
* Zitate bei Wikiquote
* GND-Nummer 118802089 WP-Personensuche, SeeAlso, Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek DNB: Datensatz, Werke

## Werke
### in deutscher Übersetzung

* Elektrizität und Materie (= Die Wissenschaft, Heft 3). Autorisierte Übersetzung von G. Siebert. Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, 1904 Internet Archive = Internet Archive, Google-USA*; ²1909
    → Electricity and Matter
* Elektrizitäts-Durchgang in Gasen. Deutsche autorisierte Ausgabe unter Mitwirkung des Autors besorgt und ergänzt von Dr. Erich Marx [PD in 2027]. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1906 Internet Archive
    → Conduction of Electricity Through Gases

### Originale

* A Treatise on the Motion of Vortex Rings. London: Macmillan and Co., 1883 Internet Archive, Internet Archive
* Applications of Dynamics to Physics and Chemistry. London: Macmillan and Co., 1888 Internet Archive, Internet Archive
* Notes on Recent Researches in Electricity and Magnetism. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1893 Internet Archive; ³1904
* Elements of the Mathematical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism. 1895
** 2nd edition. Cambridge: University Press, 1897 Internet Archive
** 3rd edition. 1904
** 4th edition. Cambridge 1909 Internet Archive, Internet Archive
** 5th edition. Cambridge 1921 Internet Archive, Internet Archive
* The Discharge of Electricity Through Gases. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1898 Internet Archive
* Conduction of Electricity Through Gases. Cambridge: University Press, 1903 Internet Archive
** 2nd edition. Cambridge 1906 Internet Archive, Internet Archive
* Electricity and Matter. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1904 Internet Archive
** New Haven: Yale University Press, 1904 Internet Archive; 1912 Internet Archive
** New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1904 Internet Archive, Internet Archive
* The Corpuscular Theory of Matter. London: Archibald Constable & Co., 1907 Internet Archive; 2nd impress. Internet Archive
** New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1907 Internet Archive, Internet Archive
* On the light thrown by recent investigations on Electricity on the relation between Matter and Ether (= Manchester University Lectures, 8). Manchester: University Press, 1908 Commons = Internet Archive
* Rays of Positive Electricity and Their Application to Chemical Analyses. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1913 Internet Archive
** 2nd edition. London 1921 Internet Archive, Internet Archive
* The Atomic Theory (= The Romanes Lecture 1914). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1914 Commons
* The Electron in Chemistry : Being five lectures delivered at The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia. Philadelphia 1923 Gallica, Michigan
* Recollections and Reflections. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1936 Internet Archive

### Veröffentlichungen in Periodika

Archives néerlandaises des sciences exactes et naturelles
* On a View of the Constitution of a Luminous Gas Suggested by Lorentz’s Theory of Dispersion. In: Ser. 2, Bd. 5 (1900), S. 642 Biodiversity Heritage Library
Journal de physique théorique et appliquée
* Décharge de l’électricité produite par les rayons de Röntgen, effets produits par ces rayons sur les diélectriques qu’ils traversent. In: Ser. 3, Bd. 5 (1896), S. 165 Google-USA*
Messenger of Mathematics
* On the Resolution of the Product of Two Sums of Eight Squares into the Sum of Eight Squares. In: Bd. 7 (1878), S. 73 Internet Archive
* An Extension of Arbogast’s Method of Derivations. In: Bd. 7 (1878), S. 142 Internet Archive
* Vortex Motion in a Viscous Incompressible Fluid. In: Bd. 8 (1879), S. 174 Internet Archive
* Note on the addition-equation in elliptic functions. In: Bd. 9 (1880), S. 52 Internet Archive
Notices of the Proceedings at the Meetings of the Members of the Royal Institution of Great Britain
* Electric Discharge through Gases. In: Bd. 14 (1896), S. 239 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* Cathode Rays. In: Bd. 15 (1899), S. 419 Biodiversity Heritage Library
Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science
* On Maxwell’s Theory of Light. In: Ser. 5, Bd. 9 (1880), S. 284 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* On the Electric and Magnetic Effects produced by the Motion of Electrified Bodies. In: Bd. 11 (1881), S. 229 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* On some Electromagnetic Experiments with Open Circuits. In: Bd. 12 (1881), S. 49 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* On the Dimensions of a Magnetic Pole in the Electrostatic System of Units. In: Bd. 14 (1882), S. 225 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* On a Theory of the Electric Discharge in Gases. In: Bd. 15 (1883), S. 427 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* On the Chemical Combination of Gases. In: Bd. 18 (1884), S. 233 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* Reply to Prof. Wilhelm Ostwald’s criticism on my paper “On the Chemical Combination of Gases”. In: Bd. 23 (1887), S. 379 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* On the Magnetic Effects produced by Motion in the Electric Field. In: Bd. 28 (1889), S. 1 Biodiversity Heritage Library, Commons
* On the Passage of Electricity through Hot Gases. In: Bd. 29 (1890), S. 358 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* Some Experiments on the Velocity of Transmission of Electric Disturbances, and their Application to the Theory of the Striated Discharge through Gases. In: Bd. 30 (1890), S. 129 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* Conductivity of Hot Gases. In: Bd. 31 (1891), S. 135 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* On the Illustration of the Properties of the Electric Field by Means of Tubes of Electrostatic Induction. In: Bd. 31 (1891), S. 149 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* On the Discharge of Electricity through Exhausted Tubes without Electrodes. In: Bd. 32 (1891), S. 321 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* The Relation between the Atom and the Charge of Electricity carried by it. In: Bd. 40 (1895), S. 511 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* (mit E. Rutherford) On the Passage of Electricity through Gases exposed to Röntgen Rays. In: Bd. 42 (1896), S. 392 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* Cathode Rays. In: Bd. 44 (1897), S. 293 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* A Theory of the Connexion between Cathode and Röntgen Rays. In: Bd. 45 (1898), S. 172 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* On the Mechanical Forces acting on a Piece of Iron carrying an Electric Current. In: Bd. 46 (1898), S. 154 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* On the Charge of Electricity carried by the Ions produced by Röntgen Rays. In: Bd. 46 (1898), S. 528 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* On the Theory of the Conduction of Electricity through Gases by Charged Ions. In: Bd. 47 (1899), S. 253 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* Note on Mr. Sutherland’s Paper on the Cathode Rays. In: Bd. 47 (1899), S. 415 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* On the Masses of the Ions in Gases at Low Pressures. In: Bd. 48 (1899), S. 547 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* On Mr. Morris-Airey’s Paper on Electrolytic Conduction in Gases. In: Bd. 49 (1900), S. 404 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* The Genesis of the Ions in the Discharge of Electricity through Gases. In: Bd. 50 (1900), S. 278 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* On a kind of easily Absorbed Radiation produced by the Impact of slowly moving Cathode Rays; together with a Theory of the Negative Glow, the Dark Space, and the Positive Column. In: Ser. 6, Bd. 1 (1901), S. 361 Biodiversity Heritage Library
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
* On the Determination of the Number of Electrostatic Units in the Electromagnetic Unit of Electricity. In: Bd. 174 (1883), S. 707 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* On some Applications of Dynamical Principles to Physical Phenomena. In: Bd. 176 (1885), S. 307 Biodiversity Heritage Library; (Part II) In: Bd. 178 A (1887), S. 471 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* (mit G. Searle) A Determination of “v”, the Ratio of the Electromagnetic Unit of Electricity to the Electrostatic Unit. In: Bd. 181 (1891), S. 583 Biodiversity Heritage Library
Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
* Note on the rotation of the plane of polarization of light by a moving medium. In: Bd. 5 (1886), S. 250 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* Some experiments on the electric discharge in a uniform electric field, with some theoretical considerations about the passage of electricity through gases. In: Bd. 5 (1886), S. 391 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* (mit H. Newall) Experiments on the magnetization of iron rods, especially on the effect of narrow crevasses at right angles to their length. In: Bd. 6 (1889), S. 84 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* (mit J. Monckman) The Effect of Surface Tension on Chemical Action. In: Bd. 6 (1889), S. 264 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* The application of the theory of the Transmission of Alternating Currents along a wire to the Telephone. In: Bd. 6 (1889), S. 321 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* On the Effect of Pressure and Temperature on the Electric Strength of Gases. In: Bd. 6 (1889), S. 325 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* A Method of Comparing the Conductivities of Badly Conducting Substances for rapidly Alternating Currents. In: Bd. 8 (1895), S. 258 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* Longitudinal Electric Waves, and Röntgen’s X Rays. In: Bd. 9 (1898), S. 49 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* (mit J. A. McClelland) On the Leakage of Electricity through Dielectrics traversed by Röntgen Rays. In: Bd. 9 (1898), S. 126 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* On the Cathode Rays. In: Bd. 9 (1898), S. 243 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* (mit S. Skinner) On a chemical effect produced by the impact of kathode rays. In: Bd. 9 (1898), S. 371 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* On the effect of zinc and other metals on a photographic plate. In: Bd. 9 (1898), S. 372 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* On the Diffuse Reflection of Röntgen Rays. In: Bd. 9 (1898), S. 393 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* On the connection between the Chemical Composition of a gas and the Ionization produced in it by Röntgen rays. In: Bd. 10 (1900), S. 10 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* On the motion of a charged ion in a magnetic field. In: Bd. 10 (1900), S. 49 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* On the Conductivity of Gases exposed to Entladungsstrahlen. In: Bd. 10 (1900), S. 74 Biodiversity Heritage Library
Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society
* On Electrical Oscillations and the effects produced by the motion of an Electrified Sphere. In: Bd. 15 (1883), S. 197
* Electrical Oscillations on Cylindrical Conductors. In: Bd. 17 (1886), S. 310
* Electrical Oscillations on Cylindrical Conductors. In: Bd. 19 (1888), S. 520
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London
* Experiments on Contact Electricity between Non-Conductors. In: Bd. 25 (1876), S. 169 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* On the Vibration of a Vortex Ring, and the Action of Two Vortex Rings upon each other. In: Bd. 33 (1882), S. 145 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* The Vortex Ring Theory of Gases. On the Law of the Distribution of Energy among the Molecules. In: Bd. 39 (1885), S. 23 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* (mit H. Newall) On the Formation of Vortex Rings by Drops falling into Liquids, and some allied Phenomena. In: Bd. 39 (1885), S. 417 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* (mit R. Threlfall) On an Effect Produced by the Passage of an Electric Discharge through Pure Nitrogen. In: Bd. 40 (1886), S. 329 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* (mit R. Threlfall) Some Experiments on the Production of Ozone. In: Bd. 40 (1886), S. 340 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* Some Applications of Dynamical Principles to Physical Phenomena. Part II. In: Bd. 42 (1887), S. 297 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* On the Dissociation of some Gases by the Electric Discharge. In: Bd. 42 (1887), S. 343 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* (mit H. Newall) On the Rate at which Electricity leaks through Liquids which are Bad Conductors of Electricity. In: Bd. 42 (1887), S. 410 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* The Resistance of Electrolytes to the Passage of very rapidly alternating Currents, with some Investigations on the Times of Vibration of Electrical Systems. In: Bd. 45 (1889), S. 269 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* Note on the Effect produced by Conductors in the Neighbourhood of a Wire on the Rate of Propagation of Electrical Disturbances along it, with a Determination of this Rate. In: Bd. 46 (1889), S. 1 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* Specific Inductive Capacity of Dielectrics when acted on by very rapidly alternating Electric Forces. In: Bd. 46 (1889), S. 292 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* On the Rate of Propagation of the Luminous Discharge of Electricity through a Rarefied Gas. In: Bd. 49 (1891), S. 84 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* The Electrolysis of Steam. In: Bd. 53 (1893), S. 90 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* On the Electrolysis of Gases. In: Bd. 58 (1895), S. 244 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* On the Discharge of Electricity produced by the Röntgen Rays, and the Effects produced by these Rays on Dielectrics through which they pass. In: Bd. 59 (1896), S. 274 Biodiversity Heritage Library
Quarterly Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics
* Note on $\int _{0}^{x}{\frac {\cos sx}{(a^{2}+x^{2})^{{\frac {1}{2}}(2p+1)}}}dx$. In: Bd. 18 (1882), S. 377 Google-USA*
Rapports présentés au Congrès International de Physique, Paris 1900
* Indications relatives à la constitution de la matière fournies par les recherches récentes sur le passage de l’électricité à travers les gaz. In: Bd. 3, S. 138 Internet Archive
Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
* Report on Electrical Theories. In: Jg. 1885 (1886), S. 97 Biodiversity Heritage Library
* The Connection between Chemical Combination and the Discharge of Electricity through Gases. In: Jg. 1894, S. 482 Biodiversity Heritage Library

## Sekundärliteratur

* J. C. Poggendorff: Biographisch-literarisches Handwörterbuch zur Geschichte der exacten Wissenschaften, Band 3. Leipzig 1898, S. 1344–1345 Internet Archive; Band 4-2 (1904), S. 1498–1499 Internet Archive
* Thomson 7). In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon. 6. Auflage. Leipzig 1909, Bd. 19, S. 499 zeno.org
* Sir J. J. Thomson, O.M. In: William Rothenstein: Twenty-Four Portraits. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1920 Internet Archive
* Joseph John Thomson 1856–1940. In: Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. Bd. 3, Nr. 10 (Dec. 1941), S. 587–609 [mit Bibliographie] Royal Society
* Lord Rayleigh: The Life of Sir J. J. Thomson O.M. Cambridge: University Press 1942 Internet Archive, Internet Archive